Very short review.

4/5 stars, as it is a very good historical resource.

I would say that this generally lacks in "gameability", which may be a positive or negative depending on the viewpoint of the individual.

Ascendant is not for me, simply due to being a superhero game. As an ornery Brit, superheroes just don't tickle me in the way that fantasy does. More of my country is Middle Earth than Metropolis!

However, Ascendant is a fantastic superhero game. It allows for anything from low-level Infamous to full on Superman and it all works off the same rules in the same framework. Want to play Boku no Hero Academia? Here's your system!

The character creation is the most complicated game system. Front loading the complexity means that the game itself, in play, runs really quickly and smoothly.

The system itself is "comic book physics" and it lays all this out in the first few chapters.

I would love to see the rules genericised and applied to other genres, like anime or high fantasy where the scaling nature of the game would work brilliantly.